Biographical Summary

Beth Warren is Co-Director of the Chèche Konnen Center, a research group within the Educational Research Collaborative (ERC). As a learning scientist, Dr. Warren seeks to contribute to transformative educational designs that build from the heterogeneity of human sense-making to multiply possibilities for learning and development for children and youth from communities historically disadvantaged in schooling and society. She and her colleagues investigate questions at the intersection of culture, race, language, and learning in disciplinary literacies, with particular attention to science, humanities, and the emerging interdisciplinary sphere of artscience. In current research, the Chèche Konnen Center has joined with Boston area public school teachers, high school youth, independent artists and university scientists to design an artscience pedagogy that aims to foster creative engagement with critical socio-scientific challenges of 21st century life. In collaboration with Tufts University, the Chèche Konnen Center is also expanding its work on a model of teacher learning that integrates attention to student sense-making, disciplinary knowledge, and historically structured inequalities on the same plane of professional inquiry. In addition to her research, Dr. Warren currently serves as an Executive Editor of Cognition and Instruction.